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In the bottom part of the dialog you can edit several options:
·
Enable
AVG Search-Shield
- (
on by default
): advisory notifying icons on
searches performed in Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex, Baidu, Bing, AOL,
AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, or SlashDot having
checked ahead the content of sites returned by the search engine.
·
Enable
AVG Active Surf-Shield
- (
on by default
): active (
real-time
)
protection against exploitive sites as they are accessed. Known malicious site
connections and their exploitive content is blocked as they are accessed by
the user via a web browser (
or any other application that uses HTTP
).
·
Enable reporting of detected threats to AVG
- mark this item to allow back
reporting of exploits and bad sites found by users either via
AVG Active Surf-
Shield
or
AVG Search-Shield
to feed the database collecting information on
malicious activity on the web.
7.5.3. AVG Search-Shield
When searching Internet with the
AVG Search-Shield
on, all search results returned
from the most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex, Baidu,
Bing, AOL, AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, or SlashDot) are
evaluated for dangerous or suspicious links. By checking these links and marking the
bad links, the
AVG Link Scanner
warns you before you click on dangerous or
suspicious links, so you can ensure you only go to safe websites.
While a link is being evaluated on the search results page, you will see a graphic sign
next to the link informing that the link verification is in progress. When the evaluation
is complete, the respective informative icon will be displayed:
